Canon camera failure

Sequence Generator Equipment Compatibility
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A few days ago I attached for the first time and tested my Canon 60D camera with 2.4 Beta 3 and it all worked well. Yesterday, I upgraded to Beta 4. That night when I tried to use the camera, it connected OK, but when I first tried to take an exposure using frame and focus, I got a message “Canon: Error in EdsSetPropertyData (PropID_Tv 0x0C) error: EDS_ERR_DEVICE_BUSY” When I dismissed the message, I could hear the shutter open and close, but no picture was downloaded.

I then proceeded to do my imaging for the night using the program Images Plus.

I don’t recall that I made any setting changes in the camera, except for exposure time and aperture.

Today, I was able to reproduce the problem using SGP. Thinking that the upgrade to Beta 4 might be involved, I uninstalled SGP and installed the latest 2.3 version. The problem persists.

I am using fully patched Windows 7,

Here is the portion of the log file from Beta 4:
[1/15/2015 11:07:49 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: Connect to camera Canon EOS 60D
[1/15/2015 11:07:49 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: Connected to port \?\usb#vid_04a9&pid_3215#6&1466078b&0&2#{6ac27878-a6fa-4155-ba85-f98f491d4f33}
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] SGM_FRAME_AND_FOCUS message received…
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] EOS camera: frame and focus…
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Canon: Setting ISO to: 6400
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Canon: ISO look val: 120
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Canon: Exposing for 1 seconds…
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 40A, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property B, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 40A, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 40A, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property B, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 40A, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property B, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 40A, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 40A, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 100, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:55 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Canon: Error in EdsSetPropertyData (PropID_Tv 0x0C) Error: EDS_ERR_DEVICE_BUSY
[1/15/2015 11:07:55 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Canon camera: abort exposure message…
[1/15/2015 11:07:55 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 40A, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] SGM_FRAME_AND_FOCUS complete…
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 406, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 405, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 402, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 102, property 406, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 102, property 405, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 406, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 405, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 101, property 402, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 102, property 406, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:56 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] Canon: PropertyEventHandler: event 102, property 405, parameter 0,
[1/15/2015 11:07:57 AM] [DEBUG] [Canon Download Thread] Canon: Directory Item Requested Transfer
[1/15/2015 11:07:57 AM] [DEBUG] [Canon Download Thread] – Event delay: 0 ms
[1/15/2015 11:07:58 AM] [DEBUG] [Canon Download Thread] --------------> getCapturedItem time: 1306 ms

Fred Klein

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Problem found. I had been trying to use the camera in Manual mode, but with exposures longer than 1 second. In my initial testing, in daylight I had been using very short exposures, <0.1 second.

Reading the Help (always a good idea) I found in the page
http://www.mainsequencesoftware.com/Content/SGPHelp/SequenceGeneratorPro.html?Cameras.html
that “Bulb vs Manual Mode - If your camera has a dedicated “Bulb” mode on the Mode Dial then you should use this mode for any exposure over 1 second. Also exposures under 1 second are not reliable when using Bulb mode so if you require reliably timed short exposures then you should switch the camera to Manual.”

I tried this and now all is well.

Situation resolved.

Fred Klein

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Fred,
Glad you figured it out. We need to put out a better message than that. We’ll try to get that in soon.

Thanks,
Jared

4

I get same error with 5DMKII in bulb mode with exposures longer than 5 seconds.

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Problem solved. It would seem that you cannot use the silent shutter setting. If you do, it will make the program think camera is busy. Please fix this. Using silent mode, plus mirror shake delay will increase the image quality by reducing any camera shake. Thanks.